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Alison Purnell is chasing that PhD! @14thcdisability.bsky.social Eternal doctoral candidate currently at University of Waterloo. Medieval disability stuff. Modern disability stuff. Occasional humorous history stories. Queer, disabled, joyful. She/They. Always check the alt-text for bonus jokes.
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Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social Civil rights activist, community gardener, LGBTQ ally.
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Saoirse Don Phalaistín.
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Critical AI @critical-ai.bsky.social Highlighting voices critical of AI and algorithmic systems. A project by the Birkbeck Institute for Data Science and AI.
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Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies @brookfarm.bsky.social brookfarminstitute.com
Utopian perambulations in the prefigurative humanities. Online and in-person seminars in Boston/Cambridge.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
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Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit. #3A
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ADHD, smidge autistic.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
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all opinions my own.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
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Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social A new magazine dedicated to the analysis and critique of contemporary technoscience.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
Colin James Woods @colinjameswoods.bsky.social artist/composer/researcher/vegan lefty
PhD student at Ulster University
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Jonathan Brennan Art @jonathanbrennanart.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist based in Belfast. Member of Vault Artist Studios and Belfast Print Workshop.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • coedited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social Writer & journalist. 📚Disability Intimacy, Body Language. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. melissahung.xyz
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Hyperfixed @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social The podcast that solves your problems https://hyperfixedpod.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Lexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social A podcast about English Language and Linguistics aimed at students in the UK.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Astra @astra-photography.bsky.social They/Them
Photojournalist from Belfast
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com Yr blowsy goth auntie. Life without buildings, Whin, Even Sisters & solo. He/him | https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com | https://whin.bandcamp.com | https://musicians.today/@rdg_music
Freq @freqzine.bsky.social A magazine about music, film and more online since 1998 at https://www.freq.org.uk
Where once there was music, now let there be noise.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@Freq
Sofia Jeppsson @jeppsson.bsky.social Mad philosopher, doting dog parent, techno-fantasy author. she/they.
Personal website: https://www.sofiajeppsson.com/
Debut novel Kugghjulssjälar is doing great in Swedish - currently searching for a new home for the English version.
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social WGAE writer of television and film
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In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social Hosted by Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. MR is an unbought, unbossed daily political talk show. Awarded @PodcastAwards Best Political Podcast 5 times #LeftIsBest https://majorityreportradio.com/about
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show An economy of violence.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.
Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour and New Music Friday host; long-ago A.V. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; dad.
https://www.npr.org/people/5244882/stephen-thompson
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
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Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, forthcoming). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social Music writer and journalist, a founding editor of Allmusic now freelancer for hire. Bylines at Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more. Subscribe to my Newsletter: sterlewine.substack.com
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
The MAC Belfast @themacbelfast.bsky.social Part art gallery, part theatre, part excellent café!
https://linktr.ee/themacbelfast
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)